GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT · FAMILY LAW + FAMILY-VIOLENCE DEFENSE
Morton Family & Criminal Law is a Glastonbury firm. The office is on Main Street, and Attorney Daniel M. Morton grew up here.
This is the practical thing worth knowing, and it depends on what kind of case you have.
Family matters— divorce, custody, support, modification, enforcement — are heard in the Hartford Judicial District at 90 Washington Street in Hartford.
Family-violence criminal matters are arraigned at Geographical Area 12, 410 Center Street in Manchester — not in Hartford, and not in Glastonbury.
A caution that catches self-represented parties regularly: 95 Washington Street, across the street, is a different courthouse and does not handle family matters. People arrive at the wrong building more often than you would expect.
So a Glastonbury resident with a divorce and a related arrest has two cases in two different buildings, roughly twenty minutes apart, on separate schedules.
Divorce, including contested and high-asset matters. Custody and parenting plans. Child support under the 2026 guidelines. Post-judgment modification and enforcement. Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Restraining orders, from either side. And criminal defense of charges arising from a domestic or family-violence incident.
The criminal practice is limited to family-violence matters. The firm does not handle unrelated DUI, drug, or theft charges.
Glastonbury households frequently involve circumstances that make a family case more complicated than the label suggests — a closely held business, equity compensation, retirement assets across several plan types, or property acquired before a marriage or received by inheritance.
Connecticut’s all-property rule makes that last point consequential. A Connecticut court may assign any asset either spouse owns, including premarital and inherited property. There is no protected category, which is why characterization and tracing arguments matter here and why marital agreements do real work.
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Where Hartford-area divorce and custody cases are heard, which towns the district covers, and what to expect at 90 Washington Street.
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If you were arrested for family violence in Glastonbury, East Hartford, Manchester, Marlborough or South Windsor, this is where you will be arraigned.
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